145 thoughts on “Game 129: O’s at Twins”

  2. Can we at least get a good start from Slowey? He really needs to show that he is a better rotation option than Blackburn or Duensing for next year.

  6. If the Twins don't put out a better effort than the last few nights, I'm going to go kill hurricane Irene.

      2. since the Twins are out of it, does Mauer get more days off once the September callups come up?

  21. according to b-r, Bert Blyleven is actually 17th in hit batters. Tim Wakefield is the active leader and is in 8th place

    1. When Bert says, "pitch inside and make them move their feet", it's code for, "I threw inside and they turned on the pitch and then moved their feet all the way around the bases".

  24. hopefully good news

    PMac21 Phil Mackey
    X-rays on Cuddyer's hand/wrist were negative. Further evaluation tomorrow. #Twins

    2. With this training staff, maybe they were trying to determine if his wrist was a tailbone and that result was negative.

    1. Yeah, maybe, but I'm not sure he could have held Mountie to a single no matter what route he took.

      1. Headline below that: "Cubs not expected to deal Pena to Yankees".

        What about all the other guys who won't be traded to the Yankees?

  33. Ok, I have to go to "Back to School Night." You guys are soooo lucky. Even if we lose by seventy-eleven billion.

    2. It's better than actually starting classes again like I am tomorrow. It'll be my 21st (and hopefully last) year of schooling.

      2. I managed 18 years, not counting preschool. K-12, 4 years at college, 1 year post-grad. I may or may not end up pushing that up to 21 if I become Dr. MagUidhir some day.

  34. Dick is shocked 10 teams who are presumably bad and are in need of rebuilding passed on claiming Delmon

    1. Those 10 teams just didn't want to make their other young guys jealous about bringing in someone with more undoubtable talent.

    2. So why would the Tigers claim him? Was he a Tiger killer or something? You'd think a team that sees him 18 times a year would know better.

  39. I appreciate that the team is making a valiant, yet likely hopeless, effort to make "Twins getting drilled" a SFW search term on the Google.

    1. One of my students is named Capps. When I saw him, I almost punched him in the face.

  44. I have the iPad set up to announce scoring changes. I'm getting sick of seeing the updates.

  45. I'm sitting in the living room, talking to my mother. The TV is not on. It is not going on.

  47. Got my old laptop working, some things on Craiglist, and other things packed up. Way more productive than sitting through this game.

    1. Nothing a weekend with O-Dog's sister couldn't cure...
      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78mv4cK1CI
      Borderline NSFW

        1. Didn't realize what the "poster" was. NSFW.

          (I was thinking lyrically. And then I thought, no one watches the videos around here.)

  51. There's part of me that wonders what sort of consequences are in the offing for a season like this.

    I mean the Twins have sucked before. But never with a top 10 payroll.

        1. The prices on stub hub for the rest of the year are still pretty high. I gotta believe they will come down. A lot.

  57. I just found "400 Years of the Telescope" as narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson on Iowa Public TV. Definite upgrade.

    And that just reminds me, that Erdos movie just showed up from Netflix. I should run out to the mailbox.

  60. On the bright side this puts the Twins in a great position for a high draft pick and signing a Type A hitter relief pitcher in the off season!

      2. I was hoping for a crafty right-hander. You know, because the Twins don't have any of those.

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